SoftBank's PayPay surges ahead in Japan's digital payments race
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-paypay/softbanks-paypay-surges-ahead-in-japans-digital-payments-race-idUSKCN2DN06F
For six decades, shoppers at Mikawaya, a rice dealer in eastern Tokyo, paid in cash - until sales staff from payments app PayPay swept through the low-lying district, persuading the store to give their product a try.